Angela Merkel
Prosecutors say the 19-year-old suspect targeted Jews in an ISIS-inspired attack that left a Spanish tourist gravely wounded.
Former German chancellor accepts an honorary degree from the Weizmann Institute in recognition of her steadfast support for Israel.
High-profile guests at the funeral of the 103-year-old Holocaust survivor included former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“When it comes to the liberal democratic party, that is a party which has traditionally been very pro-Israel,” said Sacha Stawski, head of the watchdog group Honestly Concerned and organizer of the Israel Conference in Frankfurt.
“The crimes against the Jewish people that are documented here are a perpetual reminder of the responsibility we Germans bear, and a warning,” says German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“You have been serving for years as the moral compass of the entire continent of Europe,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Israeli prime minister said it will be “an important farewell visit.”
Rafael Korenzecher doesn’t foresee mainstream political parties, even the more conservative Christian Democrats, standing up for Jewish interests despite their lip service to the contrary.
Germany is seeking to get its own nationals, in addition to Afghani citizens that helped its military forces while stationed there in the past two decades, out of the country before the end of the month.
The positions of political parties on Jewish German life and Israel read well on paper, as they also did in person at a pro-Israel rally in May at the Brandenburg Gate, where all parties (aside from the excluded AfD) sounded unusually strong pro-Israel rhetoric.
Deputy parliamentary spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU Party calls the move “a clear signal to our Jewish citizens.”
“The BDS campaign … is an ideological issue that touches a raw nerve connected to Germany’s troubled past. It should come as no surprise, then, that Germany took a leadership role in countering the campaign,” states the report.
